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1. Noah Whiteman

Most Delicious Poison

Everything you’ve always wanted to know about poisons but have been too afraid to ask…

1. Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies

Praise for The Emperor of All Maladies: ‘A riveting book … Profound, eloquent and searching’ Sunday Times ‘Masterly … at the same time an encyclopedic history of scientific progress against history and a ripping yarn’ Guardian ‘Siddhartha Mukherjee, a n oncologist, has a storyteller’s flair for placing the reader in whichever lab, ward or cellular process he describes, having us feel every clinical breakthrough and failure – and the terror of unchecked cell growth’ Observer, '25 Best Books of the Century So Far' ‘The book that many will have been waiting for. This elegantly written overview allows us to look a once whispered-about illness squarely in the eye’ Independent ‘So beautifully written; this is literature, not popular science’ Evening Standard ‘Powerful and ambitious … One of the most extraordinary stories in medicine’ New York Times Book Review ‘What a story – full of quixotic characters, therapeutic triumphs and setbacks, and recent historical events – with all the hubris and pathos of Greek tragedy’ Washington Post ‘It’s hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion’ New Yorker ‘Mukherjee brings an impressive balance of empathy and dispassion to this instantly essential piece of medical journalism’ Time ‘Now and then a writer comes along who helps us fathom both the intricacies of a scientific specialty and its human meaning. Lewis Thomas, Sherwin Nuland, and Oliver Sacks come to mind. Add to their company Siddhartha Mukherjee’ Elle ‘Rich and engrossing … With the perceptiveness and patience of a true scientist, [Mukherjee] begins to weave these individual threads into a coherent and engrossing narrative’ Economist ‘A meticulously researched, panoramic history … [Mukherjee] imbues decades of painstaking laboratory investigation with the suspense of a mystery novel and urgency of a thriller’ Boston Globe

1. Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies

1. Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Song of the Cell

Brilliant ... medical magic ... written with compassionate warmth and humour

1. Adam Rutherford

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, 10th Anniversary Edition

Now in a 10th Anniversary Edition: “Nothing less than a tour de force—a heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice

1. Oliver Basciano

Outcast

**A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR**Encountering the last leprosarium in Europe and remote villages in Mozambique, moving through Siberian settlements and Brazil's hinterlands, Outcast travels the margins of society and charts the history of a misunderstood disease.